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Free delivery of goods to all "ONE Club" members living in the Hermanus area for your convenience. You can also visit our Weekly Organic Lifestyle Market at the Organic Lifestyle Shop in Mimosa Street every Tuesday morning for your selection of fresh products.Join the "ONE Club" now !

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Please help us make a difference in the lives of our disadvantaged orphans, vulnerable children and disadvataged families living in the poverty ravaged communities of the Overstrand.

A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO MADE A DONATION TOWARDS THE PURCHASE OF THE ZWELIHLE COMMUNITY CENTRE !!!!

You have ensured that we can continue to provide our existing orphans, vulnerable children and disadvantaged families with comprehensive community and social development services and support ! You have also secured this facility for future generations ! THANK YOU !

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Our Broccoli is organically grown without chemical fertilisers and pesticides and tastes delicious. It is also highly alkaline. (find out why alkaline is important...)

Health Benefits of Broccoli.

Broccoli is one of the very low calorie vegetables; provides just 34 calories per 100 g. Nevertheless, it is rich in dietary fiber, minerals, vitamins, and anti-oxidants that have proven health benefits. Total antioxidant strength measured in terms of oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) of broccoli is 1632 µmol TE/100 g.

Fresh Broccoli is a storehouse of many phyto-nutrients such as thiocyanates, indoles, sulforaphane, isothiocyanates and flavonoids like beta-carotene cryptoxanthin, lutein, and zea-xanthin. Studies have shown that these compounds by modifying positive signaling at molecular receptor levels help protect from prostate, colon, urinary bladder, pancreatic, and breast cancers.

Further, it contains very good amounts of another anti-oxidant vitamin, vitamin-A. 100 g fresh head provides 623 IU or 21 % of recommended daily levels. Together with other pro-vitamins like beta-carotene, alpha-carotene, and zea-xanthin, vitamin A helps maintain integrity of skin and mucus membranes. Vitamin A is essential for healthy eye-sight and helps prevent from macular degeneration of the retina in the elderly population.

Broccoli leaves (green tops) are an excellent source of carotenoids and vitamin A; (provide 16000 IU of vitamin A per 100 g) contain these compounds, several times greater than that in their flower-heads.

Fresh heads are an excellent source of folates; contain about 63 µg/100 g (Provides 16% of RDA). Studies have shown that consumption of fresh vegetables and fruits rich in folates during pre-conception, and pregnancy helps prevent neural tube defects in the offspring.

This flower vegetable is rich source of vitamin-K; and B-complex group of vitamins like niacin (vit B-3), pantothenic acid (vit.B-5), pyridoxine (vit.B-6), and riboflavin. The flower heads also have some amount of omega-3 fatty acids.

Eurthermore, it is also a good source of minerals like calcium, manganese, iron, magnesium, selenium, zinc and phosphorus.